Isaiah 14:10–17

¹⁰All these leaders will make fun of you

and will say,

“Now you are weak, as we are.

Now you are just like us.”

¹¹Your pride has been sent down to the place of the dead.

The music from your harps goes with it.

Flies are spread out like your bed beneath you,

and worms cover your body like a blanket.

¹²King of Babylon, morning star, you have fallen from heaven,

even though you were as bright as the rising sun!

In the past all the nations on earth bowed down before you,

but now you have been cut down.

¹³You told yourself,

“I will go up to heaven.

I will put my throne

above God’s stars.

I will sit on the mountain of the gods,

on the slopes of the sacred mountain.

¹⁴I will go up above the tops of the clouds.

I will be like God Most High.”

¹⁵But you were brought down to the grave,

to the deep places where the dead are.

¹⁶Those who see you stare at you.

They think about what has happened to you

and say, “Is this the same man who caused great fear on earth,

who shook the kingdoms,

¹⁷who turned the world into a desert,

who destroyed its cities,

who captured people in war

and would not let them go home?”